GLP-1s, Specialty Spend, and a 9% Cost Surge: Why Employers Must Rethink Primary Care Now
The question isn’t whether costs will rise. It’s whether employers will continue managing around the margins — or address the root cause.
Why the CVS–Mass General Deal Would Likely Increase Spending More Than Access
A Massachusetts regulator is warning that CVS and Mass General Brigham’s proposed MinuteClinic partnership could drive up healthcare spending by at least $40 million annually, largely through steering patients into a higher-priced system. Experts said the deal might improve convenience for some patients but is unlikely to meaningfully expand access — and could ultimately strengthen market power and push costs even higher.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Trust Before Triage: Why I Let the Patient Help Write the Agenda
The patient's voice should be an entry point and not a barrier to better compliance and health outcomes. A nurse practitioner outlines a protocol for a frank exam-room exchange that sustains cultural humility.
AI-Driven Precision Care is the Fix for Our Health System’s Failures
To give patients the care they deserve and improve healthcare’s return on investment, PCPs can harness intelligent, clinically fluent AI – not to replace or override physicians or give them what tech companies think they need, but to support them in pragmatic ways.
The Quiet Battle for the Front Door of Healthcare
This is not a debate about care models or physician preferences. It is a contest over who will control the referral pathways and the revenue streams that originate at the front door of healthcare.
Premise-Crossover Merger: Inside the $2B Push for a New Employer Health Model
Premise Health and Crossover Health are merging to create a nearly $2 billion company. The partners plan to scale advanced primary care — an integrated bundle of primary care, behavioral health, pharmacy services and care navigation — for large self-insured employers.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
Medicare Mandates Cognitive Screening, But Do PCPs Have the Tools to Act Confidently?
The solution isn't about creating more referral pathways, but about building the measurement infrastructure that enables excellent primary care providers to act confidently on their observations.
The Primary Care Clinician of the Future Won’t Practice Alone: The Power of Scientific Partnerships
The future of primary care will be collaborative by design. Clinicians will continue to be the first call and the trusted guide, but they will be supported by scientific partners who shorten the distance between breakthrough and bedside.
Samsung Health, HealthTap Launch Virtual Primary Care Partnership
HealthTap and Samsung Health have partnered to offer virtual primary and urgent care within the Samsung Health app.
From Executive Perk to Employee Retention Strategy: Why Concierge Medicine and/or Direct Primary Care Is Now a Business Essential
With staffing shortages, historic burnout, and rising costs, concierge medicine — and direct primary care (DPC) — have moved from the margins into the middle of the retention conversation.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
HealthTap Joins LillyDirect to Expand Access to Primary Care–Led Diabetes Treatment
HealthTap is now offering virtual primary care for patients with diabetes on LillyDirect, becoming the platform’s first primary care provider.
Addressing the Primary Care Crisis by Integrating Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)
Since practices tend to build more flexibility into APPs’ schedules, they can efficiently expand patients’ access to care while allowing physicians to focus on more complex patients.
The Crisis That Unites Us: Healthcare Costs Are Breaking Everyone
The transformation of our healthcare system can start now, with employers adopting value-based care models, communities demanding better access, and policymakers challenging the status quo.
Why Doctors Are Becoming the First Stop for Mental Health — and What Comes Next
This is not a burden primary care should bear alone. It’s an opportunity to strengthen the connection between mental health providers and medical professionals and build a care model that reflects how people actually seek help.
The Promise of AI in Enhancing Specialist-Level Diagnoses in Primary Care: Overcoming Adoption Barriers
By embedding AI into primary care workflows, clinicians can validate their decisions and make more accurate and timely diagnoses, ensuring that patients receive the care they need without unnecessary delays.